MARCH 16, 1945

WASHINGTON, Thursday—On Tuesday, after getting back from visiting the Army redistribution center in Asheville, North Carolina, I had supper with the Girl Scout day and permanent camp leaders who are taking a
two-weeks training course at Montreat Inn. Immediately afterward, in the lobby of
the inn, the Brevard College chorus gave an informal program of mountain songs which was delightful.

At the evening session Arthur M. Bannerman, president of Warren-Wilson College at Swannanoa, opened the discussion on education in the mountains. So much talk followed
both the summarizing of the morning sessions and Mr. Bannerman's speech on the student
who must earn his education through work, that the second speaker of the evening never
got a chance to make his statement and had to wait until yesterday morning.

"Education in the Mountains" was the subject of the Wednesday morning program, and
at 11:15 we went over to Warren-Wilson College for a chapel program and dinner. The
afternoon was partly taken up by business meetings and partly by a summing up of the
two days' sessions, as well as a continuation of a discussion on education on the
college level.

We made the afternoon train quite easily, and this morning found us back in Washington.
I feel that I learned a great deal in these two days and am very grateful that I was
asked to take part in the discussions of the
Council
of Southern
MountainWorkers
.

I find that in giving you the rule for mailing letters and parcels to prisoners of
war in Germany, a few mistakes were made, so I want to note the changes here:

When regular correspondence blanks are not used, the writer should address his letter
just the same as he does on the regular form, but the letter should then be put into
a second envelope. Leave this second envelope unsealed, and address it: "Postmaster,
Prisoner of War Mail." All of these go to New York.

When a person has been notified that a man is a prisoner of war, but there is still
no address as to what camp he is in, the mail should be addressed in care of the International
Red Cross, Directory Service, Geneva, Switzerland.

I was deeply grieved to read the other day of the death of Mrs. Fraser, the wife of the Prime Minister of New Zealand. She was so kind to me in New Zealand, and so thoughtful of and interested in our
boys in hospitals there. Her death must be a grief to the whole people of New Zealand,
and to her husband and family an irreparable loss.